California Farmers Are Selling Water To The State Instead Of Growing Crops
In the Sacramento Valley, northeast of San Francisco, farmers are actually selling water to the state, for exorbitant fees.
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It’s World Water Day, so here are 10 facts to consider and some ways you can make a difference.
Directed by Sanjay Rawal and narrated by Forest Whitaker, this 83-minute documentary pivots around the activism of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a group of tomato pickers.
In Africa, Digital Infrastructure Paves The Way For Farmers
Africa has plenty of arable farmland, but there are crushing obstacles standing in the way of actually using it. Can tech help?
What The Heck Is The Trans-Pacific Partnership And Why Should You Care?
The TPP is the largest proposed free trade agreement deal in history, representing close to 40 percent of the world's economy. The negotiations have been ongoing for several years ...
Walking the Lines at Thunder Basin Maple Works
One of us is asthmatic and the other a smoker so we are both huffing along, mentally preparing for the hike. Over the past five weeks our crew of 14 put in 80,000 tree taps across ...
More Than 80 People Killed In Nigeria Over Cattle Grazing Rights
Today, we learn that 82 people were killed in a Nigerian village earlier this week over cattle grazing rights; Kraft’s stock fell after the company recalled 6.5 million boxes of macaroni and cheese because some were found to contain metal shards; a building fire in Waterloo, England, that sent diners at a restaurant scurrying for safety was caused by a secret marijuana-growing operation; and there was a truck crash in Maine involving 30,000 live lobsters.
Brave Farmer Battles State Department Of Agriculture Over Raw Milk
In which a farmer files a trespassing complaint against his state Department of Agriculture.
